I immediately concede that there are many sharper eyes than mine in GSS world. Yet I defy you all to make linear perspective sense out of that blue creature’s leg alignment!
He’s got a blue Shetland pony with an enlarged head and rainbow dragon’s wings.
He also seems to have the tattered vestiges of a Laura Ashley curtain handing from his waist, which would trip him if he ever got into a sword-fight.
I contend, therefore, that this cover was based on original tableau by an eight year old girl in 1981 and that the sequel has a Cindy doll driving her brother’s Palitoy tank over a poster of Shakin’ Stevens.
October 4th, 2016 at 12:50 pm
Before My Little Pony, making Huorn fabulous, a papercraft book.
October 4th, 2016 at 1:36 pm
Look at that talon! Maybe we need an “above you” tag?
October 4th, 2016 at 1:41 pm
I immediately concede that there are many sharper eyes than mine in GSS world. Yet I defy you all to make linear perspective sense out of that blue creature’s leg alignment!
October 4th, 2016 at 1:43 pm
Sequel: Huon of These Days
October 4th, 2016 at 2:09 pm
@B.Chiclitz – HaHa ↑ ↑ ↑
Prequel: Huon Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
October 4th, 2016 at 2:11 pm
Well, it makes a change from unicorns. Sorry, UNICORNS!
October 4th, 2016 at 2:12 pm
Surely the sequel would be Huon More Time?
October 4th, 2016 at 2:16 pm
@THX1138: HUONICORNS!
October 4th, 2016 at 2:22 pm
Huon – a noble gas invented by Norton.
October 4th, 2016 at 3:07 pm
These comments have been a Huonormous success.
October 4th, 2016 at 3:25 pm
This is so damn addictive….
Huon is the Loneliest Number
Another Huon Bites the Dust
Huon Toke Over the Line
Ok, Ok I have no Huon and I must pun! I’m done. Huon and done, that is.
October 4th, 2016 at 3:53 pm
Not to be confused with Huan the Hound of Valinor.
Review. More of a synopsis. Huon be a busy busy boy.
http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-50-nortons-in-50-weeks-begins
Original 1951 cover.
http://www.andre-norton-books.com/archive/Titles_H/Huon_of_the_Horn/Huon_of_the_Horn_1951_HC.jpg
1980 cover. Now that’s a Huonormous horn.
https://2warpstoneptune.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/huon-of-the-horn-fawcett-1980.jpg?w=500&h=704
October 4th, 2016 at 3:56 pm
He’s got a blue Shetland pony with an enlarged head and rainbow dragon’s wings.
He also seems to have the tattered vestiges of a Laura Ashley curtain handing from his waist, which would trip him if he ever got into a sword-fight.
I contend, therefore, that this cover was based on original tableau by an eight year old girl in 1981 and that the sequel has a Cindy doll driving her brother’s Palitoy tank over a poster of Shakin’ Stevens.
October 4th, 2016 at 4:29 pm
The seventies had a Lone Ranger doll complete with horse. Huon could be repurposed Tonto.
October 4th, 2016 at 4:59 pm
He’s probably wearing the fabulous cape to distract from the poor winged horse’s deformed legs.
October 5th, 2016 at 2:47 pm
He’s thinking, “wait, did I turn off the oven?”
October 5th, 2016 at 5:24 pm
‘Look out, Huon! The planet Jupiter is flying straight at your head!’
‘Wha…?’
October 5th, 2016 at 10:31 pm
The cover was of course recycled from from the album “Classic Rock Vol.6 — Performed By the London Symphony Orchestra”, released by K-Tel in 1980.
October 5th, 2016 at 10:33 pm
@AR: I had that one as a gift from my parents. My favourite was ‘Born to Be Wild, But Not As Wild As My Horse’.